Yearly Archive for 2013

: 2013

If you hadn’t noticed, McDonald’s McRib sandwich has returned, but a photo of its frozen pork patty is drawing plenty of eyes to the fast food restaurant’s hallowed limited-time offer. The image first cropped up on Reddit when user DJDanaK, the original poster, said a friend who worked at McDonald’s snapped a shot of a …

A 16-year-old shooting suspect isn’t going to win any points with the judge after what he told reporters as he was leaving a New York City police station. CBS New York reports Corey Dunton has multiple charges linked to the weekend shooting at the Bryant Park ice skating rink. Police say he demanded a man …

A Harlem Globetrotter almost trotted his way into the next life after an attempted dunk went awry in Honduras. The New York Daily News reports William “Bull” Bullard was trying to do an alley-oop dunk at the Nacional de Ingenieros Coliseum in Tegucigalpa when the hoop toppled over onto him. Bullard suffered a cut over …

About 80 people were reportedly executed in seven cities across North Korea on November 3 for infractions ranging from the distribution of pornographic material and prostitution to watching western movies and television, Korea Joonhang Daily reported on Monday. According to the South Korean paper, the executions took place in cities such as Wonsan, Chongjin, Sariwon, …

We’re sure this isn’t NASA meant, but seeing the Earth as a tiny speck of light in all that darkness … well, it’s hard not to think us a rather insignificant part of it all. Meanwhile in Warsaw, the world’s scientists and policy makers are trying to figure out how we can not kill ourselves …

A white supremacist who has been trying to establish an all-white enclave in North Dakota got the shock of his life during the taping of NBCU’s “Trisha Show.” Host Trisha Goddard announced during her “Race in America” series that a test determining genetic ancestry revealed racist Craig Cobb’s genetic makeup is 86 percent European and …

Didn’t believe that story about the guy who tased his wife over a football bet last week? Well, now there’s video. EARLIER: MAYVILLE, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois man is charged with a felony after allegedly using a stun gun on his wife as part of a bet on the Packers-Bears game. John Grant, of …

The unkempt hair, scraggily beard, faded windbreaker – U.S. Army Veteran Jim Wolf looks like many homeless men begging for change on the streets of San Francisco. Most people who pass by men like him probably avoid eye contact, stare down at their phones or focus intently on the sidewalk twenty feet ahead of them, …

Veteran Harold Jellicoe “Coe” Percival died at age 99 on October 25. Not many people noticed his passing. His obituary revealed he was a single man and “has no close family who can attend his funeral.” Since Percival served in RAF Bomber Command as ground crew during WWII, the obituary stated that any service personnel …

Marijuana users in Denver have found refuge: their backyards. While Colorado has legalized the recreational use of marijuana, Denver’s City Council continues to figure out how to enforce and regulate the new state law in their jurisdiction. CBS Denver reports the new draft ordinance was revised so people could be allowed to smoke in their …

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